Название: The Enterprise Data Catalog: Improve Data Discovery, Ensure Data Governance, and Enable Innovation (3rd Early Release)
Автор: Ole Olesen-Bagneux
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2022-10-25
Страниц: 101
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

How do you search for data? Combing the internet is simple. But do you search for data at work? It can be difficult and time-consuming. Sometimes it even seems impossible. This book introduces a practical solution: the data catalog. Data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers will learn how to create true data discovery in their organizations, making the catalog a key enabler for data-driven innovation and data governance.

Author Ole Olesen-Bagneux, PhD, explains the benefits of implementing a data catalog. You’ll learn how to organize the data for your catalog, search for the data you need, and manage the data once it’s in the catalog. This book is written from a data management perspective but also from a library and information science perspective.

In fact, every day at work, we search and communicate with such difficulty that it reduces our company productivity by up to 10%. For data scientists, the numbers are even worse as they lose over half their time searching for relevant data. That substantially limits innovation based on data - and that is dangerous, as your company then risks losing its leverage with competitors.

Data catalogs have been invented to address these problems and solve them. Data catalogs provide a searchable overview of all the data in your company. Unfortunately, data catalogs are disregarded as a solution to inefficient search because they are often difficult to implement and require some up-front work. You have to organize your data before you can make it searchable, which could be seen as a huge hassle. You would also need to teach all of your users how to use the data catalog, which could lead to some resistance.

Learn what a data catalog is and how it can help your organization search for data
Organize data in a catalog, including its sources, where it belongs, and how to describe it with metadata
Manage your data catalog, create access to data sources, and browse relational graph structures across systems and domains
Learn how to search your data, including its sources, and how it travels and changes in data lineage
Implement a data catalog in a way that exactly matches the strategic priorities of your organization